The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-30

The Panhandle il having an immi-
grafton that promises soon to trans
form the great pasture into thicklN
.ettled and well cultivated farming
country.--W Wichita Herald.
As matter of Information it my be
stated that school lands in all the coun
tics through which the Fort Worth
and Denver railroad passes, are now
open and classified for actual settlers
and that the railroad company Ia offer
ing liberal facilities 10 prospectors.
! The Dallas Mercury calls attention
to the alliance mass meeting i'll that
city to-day, and calls upon every mem
| Der who feels an interest in the estab
/ ishment of farm implement factory
to be present. 1t will be a great day
/ for Texas, when her farmers resolve
TO manufacture tLeir own hoe han
dies.
The next campaign in Texas will be
the hottest ever waged. 1t Will even
surpass the prohibition battle in
I iierceness. 1t will be q battle to the
death, and the elements of discord
are heating now, with energy Ar
lington Guide.
! What's the matter with the World,
anyhow? Barney is the only dis
turbing element at present, and he is
too pacific, lmb.likc and GLAND to
wage "a battle to the death" There
is no occasion for strife III Texas, the
democracy is strong enough TO
achieve respectable victory without
bsndying the usual campaign epithets
9Th opposing factions Pe,ce
and an industrial boom are the as.
piratiOps Of our best citizenship.
We don't remember to have known
Barney Gibb5to DE so much "rlled !"
as he is AT present. The editors have
goaded him until he has lost all his
characteristic suavity and calls them
blockhead editors" 1t Mr. Gibbs
were in France he would doubtless
be All Oportunist. HIS doctrine seems
10 be, that i'll rs much rs it is very
secure an Immediate reduction of the
surplus by reducing the tariff, they
had better do so by aboli- hing the in
ternal revenue. The short sighted
Oportunist doctrine. that the end
justtos the means, will not flourish
IN American politics, and especially
VIII 1t tiud an uneasy Judgement III a
( party that puts principle before policy
We think it Is very unkind i'll Mir.
Gibbs to call the editors DlOCkheads,
and we hope he VIII think better OF
them when his choler subsidies sui
| phur Springs Enterprise.
Don't get mad with Barney for that
playful remark about oiockhead
editors We are given, more or less,
to saying silly things of great men,
and it w ould be uncharitaUle to deny
them tho privilege of retorting in
, kind. Besides, Barney you know, is
an accomplished acrobat and can flop
over ON our side when the canvass
opens.
While we Texans are laying the
foundation OF magnificent empire
], building up country for the enjoy
+ ment OF posterity, why not make it {
: little more comfortable for ourselves
Austin Statesman.
. A lady in Bosque says Texans viii
DO nothing that they cannot do oil
horseback Is the Statesmen's per
= tinent inquiry answered:
q Denisou is the natural distributing
point for the entire state.-Denisol
u News.
Yes, but that natural chestnu
: was long since played by the plucl
u and enterprise of the Central City
I which now enjoys the well-earneC
: prominence so v4untingly claimed
: for the North Texas City.
DID political scheming have ough
It to do with the present condition o
o the capitol dome rs reported iron
Austin Collin County Lines.
Probably not but it is strongly
J.. surmised that politics, or some othel
6 rascally virtue was behind the arra
at the birth of the report.
c ANTI-PovERrY is "A good scheme
= but 1t is better worked out at tn,
r pillow or in the shops than ut the ballo
. boX.-Ty Ter Courier.
>. But the pillow" Isn't shaped RICH
for the scheme" and the ballot DO,
II has no attractions, The "snti-poverty
Il fellows have other methods to "worl
OUT the problem, none of which in
volVe the "sWeat- Of the brow fiat